Israeli troops admit sadistic abuse

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Israeli state-run radio on Monday reported that five Israeli occupation soldiers had confessed to committing "degrading acts" against two Palestinian youths.



According to the radio, the soldiers were manning a roadblock outside the Palestinian neighbourhood of Abu Dis earlier this month when they allegedly detained, beat and humiliated two unidentified Palestinian boys.

According to press reports, the soldiers forced the boys into an abandoned house near the roadblock. There they urinated into a small plastic bucket, dipped the boys' identity cards in and, at gunpoint, forced them to retrieve the IDs with their mouths.

According to testimonies made by the boys to the Israeli human rights organisation Btselem, the soldiers also extinguished cigarettes on their skin.

Before being released, they were ordered to jump from the roof of the one-storey building, causing unspecified injuries.

The soldiers, who belonged to the notoriously violent border police, were arrested on Sunday night, after the story was published in the Hebrew-language press.

One of them reportedly told police that he did what he did because he hated Arabs and wanted to exact revenge on them."